The bus pulled away from the stop, but immediately came to a halt behind a queue of cars at a red light. Two women outside began pounding on the back doors and yelling “wait! wait!”. As a chorus of “back door!” arose from the passengers, the driver allowed the women to enter.<\/p>\n
A minute later the bus still hadn’t moved, and a third woman arrived upon the scene, slapping the flat of her hand against the bus and yelling “wait!”, just as the traffic light turned green. The driver hesitated for a moment, glanced at the wailing woman in his side mirror, and then took off. Grumbles rippled through the coach, with one young man loudly pronouncing the entire situation “lame!”<\/p>\n
After we got onto the freeway, the driver spoke over the intercom. “Ladies and gentlemen, ” she said, “We do not allow people to board the bus after it has left the curb for reasons of saftey. People who run into the street after a departing bus often fall under the wheels and sustain injury or death.<\/p>\n
“Last year, five people were killed while trying to catch a bus that had already left the curb,” she continued in an ominous tone. “Unfortunately for those people, they caught their bus … for the last time!<\/i>”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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